“Liminal horror” has become a hipster buzzword, so here is what it actually means and where it actually lives: the back of the shop. From Skinamarink, The Exit 8 and Vivarium to Edinburgh’s Hunter’s Tryst and the council-house terror of Ghostwatch, this is the case that the Backrooms are just a British backshift, and that British working-class horror beats the American liminal void at its own game. The Americans get the empty void. We get the void plus a supervisor.
Skinamarink
SKINAMARINK – MY LIFE IN HORROR
The intensity, the sincerity of that fear is something we can barely comprehend as adults, no matter how earnestly we might try to conjure or contrive it. George daniel lee SKINAMARINK – MY LIFE IN HORROR The experience of Skinamarink is, for me, powerful, resonant and beautifully traumatic. The film is a … SKINAMARINK – MY LIFE IN HORRORRead more